Teenager Quotes - Page 28

• I was the last one of nine kids - eight girls and me last - and my sisters were going out. They were teenagers. And as they were getting ready, I would sit on the bathtub and watch them put on makeup and transform themselves - you know, putting on clothes and giggling about the boys they were going to meet and everything. So for me, that was an amazing thing - the fact of transforming themselves.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Girl, Kids, Boys

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was a violent, self-destructive teenager, who was adopted right at the end of World War II. I was lied to and abused by my parents. I hated life in Utah. I resented the Mormon Church, its sense of superiority and its certitude. I escaped through the Beat writers and discovered poetry and have devoted my entire life to the practice of poetry in varying ways. Poetry gave me a reason for being. And I'm not exaggerating when I say that.

  Sam Hamill

  War, Self, Utah

  Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.

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• As a teenager, you have so much energy and hormones and you feel powerless in your life.

  Patricia Arquette

  Energy, Hormones, Feels

  Source: collider.com

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• Why would twenty-six-year-old "teenagers" care about political ramifications if their backs are not up against the wall? But if their backs are against the wall they may be plucked to fight in Iraq, and all of sudden they become politicized real quick.

  Chuck D

  Wall, Real, Fighting

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, progressive.org. July 20, 2005.

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• As a late teenager, the punk movement pushed me further. In particular, the Clash, which happened to leak through the time of disco, showed me that there was this cross-cultural sound that could cut across genres and audiences. Like punk was to disco, rap music was a rebellion against R&B, which had adopted disco and made it worse.

  Chuck D

  Rap, Cutting, Movement

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, progressive.org. July 20, 2005.

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• I was in the process of growing dreads, they were down to my lip. I could whip them back and forth. Then I just thought to myself, "Is this really me? Can I really do this?" So I washed them out and went to the barber shop. I told them to give me a mohawk. But then there was this teenager also getting one. I couldn't do that.

  Nate Burleson

  Giving, Growing, Mohawks

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• Teenagers expressing this on a daily basis in the middle of the streets - you can't help but believe we are in the mind state of taking our losses and changing people's perceptions of us and our community. We are strong. Our families are tired of being hurt.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Strong, Hurt, Believe

  "Kendrick Lamar Knows How to Deal with the Grammys Censors". Interview with Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. February 12, 2016.

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• People also don't understand how young the Panthers were - basically teenagers. And that they were over 50 percent women.

  Stanley Nelson Jr.

  People, Panthers, Young

  "This New Film Will Change the Way You Think About the Black Panthers". Interview with Edwin Rios, www.motherjones.com. February 14, 2016.

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• My kids will be needing me a lot when they hit their teens. If I know anything about being a teenager. I need to be braced to be spending a lot of time with all six of them and making sure I can be there for when they go through everything.

  Angelina Jolie

  Kids, Six, Needs

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• It bugs me when they have people my age [28] playing teenagers.

  Sofia Coppola

  People, Age, Bugs

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The actors I looked up to when I was a teenager, they all just disappeared into different characters.

  Michael Fassbender

  Character, Different, Actors

  "Alicia Vikander, Michael Fassbender on their relationship, onscreen and off". Interview with Joe McGovern, ew.com. August 26, 2016.

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• As a teenager, I began to question the Great Christian Sorting System. My gay friends in high school were kind and funny and loved me, so I suspected that my church had placed them in the wrong category... Injustices in the world needed to be addressed and not ignored. Christians weren't good; people who fought for peace and justice were good. I had been lied to, and in my anger at being lied to about the containers, I left the church. But it turns out, I hadn't actually escaped the sorting system. I had just changed the labels.

  Nadia Bolz-Weber

  Love, Christian, School

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• So when my critics say that Sassy is only for alienated teenagers, I feel like responding, 'Well, isn't an unalienated teenager the biggest oxymoron?'

  Jane Pratt

  Sassy, Oxymoron, Critics

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• When I was a teenager, I thought I wanted to be an actor. I worked on an Indian soap opera that was my first exposure to production. But I quickly became disillusioned by acting and seeing that in the movies I loved and the TV I loved, no one looked like me. There weren't going to be any leading roles that would be interested in casting someone with my face.

  Meera Menon

  Acting, Actors, Opera

  "Meera Menon and the Women of Wall Street". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 29, 2016.

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• I love all the Hollywood women. I saw all the films when I was a teenager. Jack Smith's "Flaming Creatures".

  Nan Goldin

  Hollywood, Saws, Film

  Source: foggysapphires.wordpress.com

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• Especially as a teenager, I was always being racially profiled by the police. You just see all this injustice, and you want to do something about it, but you don't know how.

  Dolores Huerta

  Police, Want, Injustice

  Source: www.sdfoundation.org

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• When you're a teenager with a creative mind, be as creative as possible. I'd rather you go nuts. Having more ideas is always better.

  Christian Siriano

  Nuts, Ideas, Creative

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Hillary Clinton is somebody who has had a passion for families and children since she was a kid, in a Methodist youth group as a teenager in the suburbs of Chicago.

  Tim Kaine

  Children, Passion, Kids

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We know that it's hard enough being a teenager. It's particularly hard being a teenager who's coming out.

  Tanya Plibersek

  Enough, Coming Out, Knows

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Being a teenager who's coming out during a national debate about whether there's something wrong with you, something wrong with the fact that you love someone of the same gender, that's a terrible thing.

  Tanya Plibersek

  Facts, Debate, Gender

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I personally got to draw a take on a character that I've had in my mind since I was a teenager. That was pretty sweet!

  Declan Shalvey

  Sweet, Character, Mind

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• The thing I learned is that the work is getting done by people who dig in and work on a particular project: the people who spend 20 years sustaining a theater for black teenagers in Chicago; the people who reintroduce sticklebacks into Strawberry Creek in Berkeley and then wait patiently for the first egrets to show up.

  Robert Hass

  Years, People, Waiting

  Interview with Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April, 1997.

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• I grew up in Harlem, but I moved to the Lower East Side when I was a teenager and it was ... I feel like when I try to describe it, it doesn't sound believable. It just sounds like you're lying. And I see it on the faces of my younger friends.

  Zoe Leonard

  Lying, Trying, Sound

  Interview with Molly Prentiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 13, 2016.

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• I'm very much thinking in music most of the time, but I really would love to start filming because when I was a teenager, that was my big hobby and it was always fun for me to explore that world.

  Trentemøller

  Fun, Thinking, Hobbies

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Whereas when I was a teenager, other teenagers didn't want anything to do with me. It was even like that in college to a degree. People of that age don't want anything to do with their childhood, because they had put away childish things, and they're trying to distance themselves.

  Mara Wilson

  Distance, College, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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